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The President of La Biennale di Venezia, Roberto Cicutto, and the Curator of the 18^th International Architecture Exhibition, Lesley Lokko – appointed as the Artistic Director of the Architecture Department by the Board of Directors on December 14^th, 2021 – today announced the title and theme of the Biennale Architettura 2023, which will be held from May 20^th to November 26^th 2023 (pre-opening May 18^th and 19^th) in the Giardini, at the Arsenale, and at various sites around Venice.

The title of the 18^th International Architecture Exhibition is The Laboratory of the Future.

“New technologies continuously appear and disappear – stated Lesley Lokko – giving us unfiltered glimpses of life in parts of the globe we will likely never visit, much less understand. But to see both near and far simultaneously is also, as Du Bois and Fanon famously put it, a form of ‘double consciousness’, the internal conflict of all subordinated or colonised groups, which describes the majority of the world, not only ‘there’, in the so-called Developing-, Third-, and Arab Worlds, but ‘here’ too, in the metropoles and landscapes of the global North. In Europe we speak of minorities and diversity, but the truth is that the West’s minorities are the global majority’diversity is our norm. There is one place on this planet where all these questions of equity, race, hope and fear converge and coalesce. Africa. At an anthropological level, we are all African. And what happens in Africa happens to us all”.

Kultur | lx, in collaboration with Ministry of Culture and LUCA Luxembourg Center for Architecture, launched a call for applications to represent Luxembourg at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.
The laureate will be announced on July 22.

More information HERE.